Green Options

The plans to adopt the Solar Rickshaw, like the ones in Delhi, in other cities such as Chandigarh makes one wonder about the misplaced focus and euphoria of reducing the carbon footprint of a already zero-emission vehicle, the cycle-rickshaw. Solecshaws are indeed a great step forward, but in this euphoric hype several important issues and questions are conveniently pushed under the rug

Media hype completely puts things out of perspective. In the case of technology, I am afriad that such euphoria will kill the technology with raised expectations that will not be fulfilled. I fear the same for Delhi’s ’soleckshaw.’